Before you apply, please read through the guidelines below.

Eligibility Guidelines

Funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis to a maximum of $2500 per request. When the annual allocation is exhausted, no additional funds will be available until the following fiscal year.

Requests for funding should be made immediately after an article is accepted for publication.

Any UT Knoxville faculty member, post-doctoral associate, or currently enrolled graduate student whose article has been accepted may apply for funding.

Authors should request a waiver or reduction of charges from the publisher before applying for open publishing support. (More information about these requests is provided in the Application Instructions.)

Authors may apply for funds more than once per year, but should submit separate applications.

Authors with sufficient funding from grants or contracts are encouraged to use those funds to allow others to share in the benefit of open publications.

Support for open access e-books will be considered on a case-by-case basis and must follow the above eligibility and guidelines.

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UT Libraries has a separate agreement with the publisher PeerJ to cover all open access article processing charges for their journals. If you wish to publish in a PeerJ journal, do not submit this OPSF application; instead, complete the UT PeerJ Publishing Plan Applicationbefore you submit your manuscript.